PUNK
ARTIST: magazine founded at the end of the '70s by Graziano Origa
following the birth of his movement called PUNK ART. Decadent and classy,
elegant but trash, sometimes anguished, sometimes at top speed: more than a
fashion it seemed a 'mood'. People danced together at Plastic with Marcel Proust
and Rimbaud, and alone with Krisma and Grace Jones. Graziano seems a paranoid
dandy and creates phrases like "Delightful", "Type", "Tomorrow evening, but I do
not know the time, "I like the tone of your voice", "What a nice purple ass",
"He's fallen from heaven".

"Punk Artist" - designed in the fall of 1978 by
Graziano Origa comes in a very special moment. 1978 is perhaps the most dramatic
year in the history of the Italian Republic: Aldo Moro is kidnapped and killed,
Sandro Pertini is elected president , Mickey Mouse turns 50 and John Travolta
stars in "Saturday Night Fever".
When, in 1979, Sid Vicious is found dead for an overdose and images from Voyager
I show that Jupiter is surrounded by a ring, Graziano says: " 'It's mine! It
just ended there".

"Punk Artist" was published for a total of 17 numbers from January
1979 to December 1982. It contains interviews with designers, artists,
photographers, painters and other creative people. Content mostly photographic.
In the executive team , Marco Cy (editor), Adriana Lobello (advertising), Joe
Zattere (photographer), Alfredo Baraldi (art agent), Marzia Schiano (fashion).